Late Punic Epigraphy. An Introduction to the Study of Neo-Punic and Latino-Punic Inscriptions. Ed. by Karel Jongeling and Robert M. Kerr |
Late Punic EpigraphyAn Introduction to the Study of Neo-Punic and Latino-Punic InscriptionsKarel Jongeling and Robert Kerr present a selection of those late Punic texts (i.e. post-dating the destruction of Carthage in 146BC) in both neo-Punic and Latin script which are relatively easy to understand, making them accessible to non-experts in the field of Northwest Semitic epigraphy. The brief but thorough commentary provided for each text explains the readings, the idiosyncrasies of later Punic and the underlying scribal conventions. In some cases, the authors give new readings and dispense with the old ones. On the one hand, the present authors intend to pick up where Gibson’s Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions left off, on the other to broaden the selection offered by Donner and Röllig in Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften , whilst at the same time also reflecting the results of research carried out during the past decades. |